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Psychosurgery

Psychosurgery. Matt Schmoyer. HUH?. Neurosurgery for mental disorder Began with Gottlieb Burckhardt a swiss psychiatrist James Watts and Walter Freeman came up with the standard prefrontal procedure called lobotomy . Lobotomy. Bilateral prefrontal lobotomy

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Psychosurgery

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  1. Psychosurgery Matt Schmoyer

  2. HUH? • Neurosurgery for mental disorder • Began with Gottlieb Burckhardt a swiss psychiatrist • James Watts and Walter Freeman came up with the standard prefrontal procedure called lobotomy

  3. Lobotomy • Bilateral prefrontal lobotomy • Cutting the connections from the prefrontal cortex • Stick and ice pick through the eye into the brain

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